American Imperialism’s Undead has won the 2017 Gordon K. and Sibyl Lewis Prize for best book about the Caribbean, awarded by the Caribbean Studies Association. According to CSA, the prize is the organization’s most prestigious award.

Prize committee chair Carole Boyce Davies describes the book as “accessible and well-written” with a “deep, continuous argument” based on “wide and deep research.” The book effectively “uses literature to make links across the Caribbean” even while being “fully interdisciplinary.” As a result, it “expands the boundaries of Haitian, pan-Caribbean, and pan-African studies.”